and proposed to him to collect a body of
troops, and to fire on the royalists. Jourdan, and many other officers
were applied to, but refused so base an employment. Bonaparte willingly
accepted it--acquitted himself to Barras's satisfaction, and Barras then
offered him the command in Italy, provided he would marry his cast-off
mistress, Madame Beauharnois. To this Bonaparte consented. Bonaparte's
mother had been, about this time, turned out of the Marseilles Theatre,
on account of her bad character; for it was well known, that she
subsisted herself and one of her daughters on the beauty of her other
daughter. Shortly after Bonaparte's appointment to the Italian army, the
same magistrate (the Mayor of Marseilles), who had formerly turned out
Madame Bonaparte, perceived her again seated in one of the front boxes;
he went up to her, and turned her out. She immediately wrote to her son,
and the poor mayor was dismissed. This anecdote is, I find, mentioned by
Goldsmith, who refers, in proof of its truth, to the newspapers of the
time, in which the conduct, and sentence of the mayor are fully
discussed.

Bonaparte, extremely dissipated himself, would yet often correct any
propensities of that kind in his relations. Pauline, the Princess
Borghese, had formed an attachment for a very handsome young Florentine;
he was one night suddenly surprised by Bonaparte's emissaries, put into
a carriage, and removed to a great distance, with orders not to return.

One of Bonaparte's relations had formed an attachment to Junot, who was
one of the handsomest men in France; Junot was immediately after sent to
Portugal, and upon his defeats there, he was disgraced publicly by
Bonaparte, and killed himself, it was believed, in a fit of despair.

The Princess Borghese, though vain, fond of dress, of extravagance, and
of pleasure of every sort, whether honest or otherwise, has yet a good
heart. A cousin of Mr L. B.'s was ordered to join the Garde d'Honneur:
One of the last and most cruel acts of Bonaparte, was the constitution
of this corps, which was meant to receive the young men of noble or rich
families. The mother and relations of this young man were inconsolable,
and the sum of money which would have been required as a ransom, was
more than they could give; for Bonaparte, well knowing that the better
families would rather pay than allow of their sons serving in his guard,
had made the price of ransom immense. In their distress, they applied